Neuroscientist Nancy Ip, president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, has received the UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences. The award was presented on Friday in Paris.
Ip was honoured for discovering new biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and developing blood tests that allow it to be diagnosed earlier and monitored more closely.
UNESCO described her as a world-renowned neuroscientist whose work has advanced the understanding of brain function and of Alzheimer's.
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